Have Your Say

Welcome to the Manawatu District Council's dedicated consultation site. Public Consultations are your opportunity to give us feedback on a wide-variety of issues before they are finalised by Council. In some cases your feedback may be requested on several occasions before it is finalised.

We advertise through various mediums when a public consultation period is open. You can also check this site to see what we are currently consulting on.

Our staff are happy to assist with any questions you may have prior to making a submission. Their contact details will be listed with each issue.

We have the following topics available for consultation:

Proposed Representation Arrangements

On 26 July 2018 the Manawatū District Council reviewed its representation arrangements, and resolved that the following proposal apply for the Council for the local government elections to be held on 12 October 2019.

It is proposed the Council will comprise 10 members to be elected from two wards, and the Mayor. The two wards comprising the Rural and Feilding communities.

Help us design Feilding Growth Precinct 4

Manawatu Council is working together with landowners, developers, iwi and hapu to collaboratively decide what the Pharazyn Street area – which could provide housing for more than 1700 people – should look like.

Work on the Precinct 4 growth area has moved into the master planning phase – modelling what the area could actually look like.